Quote #8500
I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.
Quote #17543
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Quote #2532
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Quote #18373
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a...
Quote #30464
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept...
Quote #32560
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned...
Quote #17475
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Quote #13081
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch....
Quote #24599
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government...
Quote #4459
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.